Extractions: HARRISON FORD Movie Star Harrison Ford starred in two of the biggest box office successes of the 20th century: as Han Solo in George Lucas 's Star Wars series and as Indiana Jones in Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981, directed by Steven Spielberg ). He also starred with Ron Howard in American Grafitti (1973), appeared in the Francis Ford Coppola films The Conversation (1974) and Apocalypse Now (1979), and played an android-hunting cop in the sci-fi classic Blade Runner (1982, with Daryl Hannah ). The remarkable string of hits made him the biggest movie star of his era. (In 1994 the National Association of Theater Owners named him the "Star of the Century.") Ford also played the heroic Jack Ryan in Patriot Games (1992) and A Clear and Present Danger (1994), action films based on novels by Tom Clancy . Although he has never won an Oscar, Ford was nominated for his performance in Witness (1985) and in 2000 was given a Life Achievement Award from the American Film Institute.

Extractions: Celebrity Row :Harrison Ford Born : July 13, 1942 Chicago, Illinois, USA Poster Gallery Born in Chicago on July 13th, 1942, Ford first appeared on movie screens in 1966 with an uncredited role as a bell hop in Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round . He did several other movies and TV appearances during that time but seemed to have better luck with his carpentry than with his acting. That changed when director George Lucas cast him in American Grafitti . The pair worked together again in 1977 when Lucas cast Ford as the cocky space pilot Han Solo in Star Wars , a role he reprised in The Empire Strikes Back (1980) and Return of the Jedi While some actors are lucky if they get one popular film series in their career, Ford added another one starting in 1981 when he teamed with producer George Lucas and director Steven Spielberg on Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) which was followed by Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (which co-starred Sean Connery ) in 1989. Blade Runner Witness The Mosquito Coast in 1986 and Working Girl and Frantic Presumed Innocent and Regarding Henry and then hopped into yet a third franchise when he took over the role of Jack Ryan that Alec Baldwin played in The Hunt for Red October . Ford played the CIA operative in both Patriot Games and Clear and Present Danger Ford then made The Fugitive in 1993, remade